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In this Meetup, Dr Tony Russell-Rose considered knowledge workers such as information professionals, legal researchers and librarians and their requirements to create and execute search strategies that are comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible.

Slides are available here

With sadness we report the death on 26 November 2020 of Jean Aitchison, one of the founding members of ISKO UK, who inspired at least two generations with her work on techniques of knowledge organization, particularly faceted classification and thesaurus construction. For more on her life and achievements, see the obituary .

Email and MS Teams from an information architecture perspective

In this Meetup, James Lappin explored what strategies towards email will best enable information professionals to make a positive contribution to how messages are managed, protected and exploited as a knowledge resource.

Slides available here

Interactive workshop: getting started with VocBench (step 1)

The slide deck, handouts and video file are available for viewing here.

At this Meetup, Jennifer Parrucci, Senior Taxonomist at The New York Times, gave a peak into the newspaper's legacy of metadata use, how tags are assigned today and how this metadata powers products and internal services.

You can view slides here

ISKO UK Meetup* events are now organized through the Knowledge Organization group.

Sign up and join our group at Meetup to know more and register for our monthly Zoom events.

In this September virtual ISKO UK Meetup, four speakers gave a demonstration of tools that help them building taxonomies, including: 

1. PoolParty CardSorting software with Ian Piper - Slides
2. Thesaurus manager Similarity and Suggestions with Niké Brown 
3. Graphcommons with Phil Stacey   Slides
4. Qualitative data analysis computer software Nvivo 12 with David Haynes Slides

Knowledge Graphs, Part II: Practical Applications

Once again, we were privileged to have Bob Kasenchak and Ahren Lehnert from Synaptica share their knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, this time, by going through a wealth of applications.

Thanks to Bob and Ahren for a very engaging presentation. Their slides can be viewed here 

Knowledge Graphs, Part I: Theories and Definitions

Bob Kasenchak and Ahren Lehnert from Synaptica led the first part of a discussion on knowledge graphs, including various approaches and definitions to what they are and how they are applied.

Bob's and Ahren's slides can be viewed here.

The biennial General Assembly of ISKO International will be a virtual meeting held on Tuesday 7th of July 2020, 4 pm BST.

This year’s General Assembly will be the last under our old constitution before we transfer to the newly-incorporated non-profit organization in Canada. Currently ISKO is a German non-profit organization, which means that we are dependent on German-speaking members to handle all our formal registration and returns. Being incorporated in an English-speaking territory widens the scope for participation in the administration and oversight of the organization.

Members will be reviewing the new constitution and by-laws. Election to the Executive Board and appointment of the Board of Directors will take place by electronic poll in the week following the General Assembly.